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Originally posted by AgentC
Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by jplotinus
I gotta say you made some pretty good points. I believe it's most likely an illusion caused by the spire falling, and the dust is really just slower to fall than the steel giving it the appearance of disintegrating. However when I watch this video....it seriously looks like it turns to dust:
The 35 second video you refer us to shows the spire turning to dust. Further, the spire was more than 50 stories in height. The scant remains of the towers, consisting in a virtually flat ground zero, show no evidence of a 50+ story spire.
Those who claim the spire fell, rather than disintegrate, have an obligation not merely to suggest to others what is or is not shown in a video. Rather, there is an additional obligation to show some evidence of a structure that large on the ground. It was nowhere to be found at gz.
It's dropping and leaving a dust trail. I remember the first time I saw this video and read the evaporation theory. To be honest, at the time, I saw what I wanted to see. You have to be careful not to let others plant a mental impression in your mind to cloud what you are actually seeing.
I watched this all unfold on television while at home nursing a broken ankle. Before there was a "911 truth movement." It was just common sense to me as I watched the twin towers fall that it was a controlled demolition. In fact, I was a little beside myself when I watched the second tower fall. And when I watched tower 7 fall later that day ... it clenched it for me ... and I have had no reservations otherwise since that day.
It is unfortunate that the "truth movement" has been infiltrated with the loons (psyops?) who claim such things as holographic planes and such. I believe that planes did hit the twin towers, but I am not entirely convinced that they were common passenger jets, nor am I entirely convince that a passenger jet hit the pentacon. It is absolutely BS that showing ALL the videos confiscated would be detrimental to "national security".
Short version.
Long version.
Anyhow, you have done a great job and I tip my hat to you.
The question for any investigation of the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC7 would be "What caused them to collapse?".
1. Formulate questions you have predisposed answers for.
The research was to get an understanding of how fire affects skyscrapers, and how buildings collapse. The question being "how did they collapse", it would be foolish to not investigate other building collapses. And since the primary trigger in the collapses was fire damage, ignoring all fires that have occured in skyscrapers would also be foolish.
2. Perform research and record observations from biased websites who agree with your deluded mind state.
Are you talking about NIST?
3. Construct hypothesis and make predictions based on an "official" report that refused to answer the important questions and made blind assumptions labeled "evidence" instead.
The hypothesis was "Were the towers brought down by a controlled demolition", and the prediction was that their collapse would exhibit demolition characteristics. So how is the supporting evidence falsified if it actually backs up the hypothesis rather than proves it to be false? Is that not the exact opposite of falsified?
4. Test with experiments that are falsified and fail to use all available information, in order to fit the current agenda.
Um....no? The hypothesis was that the towers were brought down by a controlled demolition, the prediction was that it would exhibit characteristics of one, the evidence validated that prediction.
5. Analyze falsified results and draw inaccurate conclusions.
Uh there's no "pretending" going on here, the hypothesis has been corroborated. You should try reading through the thread again, or at the very least research the scientific method.
6. Pretend the hypothesis has been corroborated, and report results immediately as an obvious explanation.
Try reading the thread of the OP you're posting in next time.
Any demolition, no matter how covert would leave something you could hold and easily identify
"You wouldn't need miles and miles of det. cord, you could have used wireless remote detonators and they have been available for years....and of course the military has them as well. Contractors don't use them on the other hand because they're just too expensive....What we use now is RDX copper jacketed shape charges, and when they're initiated there is nothing left of those charges."
Yes, all but the one which suffered a partial collapse, which I explained clearly in the OP.
1)Are they ALL steel framed?
I don't believe so, however they are steel-framed skyscrapers (excluding the final example of course). Care to post the building designs that you took the time to examine?
2)Are they all tube in tube design?
No and that is irrelevant.
3)Did they all have around 110 floors
No, but thank you for pointing out that more severe fires affecting a smaller area than the Twin Towers and WTC7 does not cause even a partial collapse.
4)Were the floors one acre in area with around 700+ tons of concrete on each floor?
No they weren't, thank you for rhetorically pointing out an obvious fact. I have one for you: Was WTC7 "hit by a large passenger aircraft at 500mph"?
5)Were they hit by a large passanger aircraft at 500mph to cause structural, explosive(fuel) and then fire damage?
I don't know, I don't have the blueprints of the buildings on file, sorry. Do you have any proof to support your "NO!" regarding this question?
6)Was the floor system supported by an open truss system.
Refer to the above answer.
7)Were the floors held up by small sections of angle iron on exterior and interior steel.
Eventually yes, however take a look at the time that the fires burned and reconsider what you said. 17, 18, 6, 3, and 4 hours.
8)Did the respective fire departments tackle the fires/or sprinkler systems if installed work?
That is just one section of the initial research and observations, and the fact of the matter remains that steel-framed skyscrapers have never even suffered a partial collapse due to fire damage. So to answer your question, yes, it actually is a very good start for my scientific standpoint.
Not a very good start for your scientific standpoint ?
They burned for 17, 18, 6, 3, and 4 hours, compared to less than 2 hours for both Twin Towers.
Now number 8 if you look at your examples some are concrete framed and if you read the reports lots of steelwork either collapsed or threatened to collapse also they either were tackled by the fire departments or sprinkler systems worked!!!
That didn't happen at the towers did it?
Thank you for pointing out that which is explained in the OP. The buildings structure was not steel-framed, that is made very clear in the OP.
The Windsor Tower or Torre Windsor (officially known as Edificio Windsor) was a 32-storey concrete building with a reinforced concrete central core. A typical floor was two-way spanning 280mm deep waffle slab supported by the concrete core, internal RC columns with additional 360mm deep steel I-beams and steel perimeter columns.
i.e. steel-framed skyscrapers don't suffer critical structural damage due to fire. Thank you for validating the observation made in the OP.
The total burnout of four and a half floors did not cause damage to the main structural members due to a good application of spayed fire protection on all steelwork
And?
Without the effective fire fighting on the 16th floor by the fire brigade, the fire could have spread to all floors above.
Further validation that fire does not cause skyscrapers to collapse to the ground.
It was also shown that if fire protection to structural members is adequately designed and applied with quality control, fire damage to fire exposed members will be minimised and structural collapse can be prevented
I'll be waiting, because you have a lot more debunking to do than a fraction of 1/7th of the OP.
There are also problems with the others you gave, not got time to show those will do when I get back from a business trip and we can also look at at your other scientific proof.
Scientific enough to use the scientific method.
I mean when these guys can watch videos of the WTC 7 collapse and not even come close to the time it took to collapse how scientific are they!
I hate to generalize like this, but why do OSers constantly type in all caps? Loud doesn't mean right.
Apples with apples or its BS and YOU KNOW THAT!
9/11
I did. Please tell me one time in history that the military covertly took down 3 buildings all over 50 stories let alone a CDI company?
As were the other government investigations. The OP is filled with facts.
You are talking in theory and not in fact.
I just did.
You cannot just quote someone and state that is how it happened.
Read the OP again and then reply. If after reading the OP you can't find this physical evidence, I will walk you through it a step at a time.
Where is the physical evidence?
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by wecanthandlethetruth
Deeper in the building? Probably hotter, where the fire was not as exposed to the outside air. Obviously the volume of the smoke was evidence of something burning inside, right? It didn't seem like a tiny fire. Same with WTC 7. That was a LOT of smoke! Are you trying to imply that the fires were burning cold?
Originally posted by jplotinus
Finally, just a word about holograms. The technology exists. The explanation helps to resolve the conflict among eyewitnesses. Most who were verifiably present and who had an obligation to be alert, almost invariably report seeing a fireball and hearing an explosion. They do not report seeing a jetliner. One can ask, how could they have missed seeing a jetliner 1000ft(+/-) above their heads; and, how could they not be certain they heard the characteristic sound of a jet, especially one zooming in at 500+mph? However, to account for the minority of known eyewitnesses who claim they saw some sort of plane (small, large, missile, etc.), the hologram postulate has merit.
They were steel-framed skyscrapers, and that was the comparison that was made: How fire affects steel-framed skyscrapers.
None of the towers you named were designed in the same fashion. None. The WTC did not have the think inner core of concrete nor solid concrete in other parts of the structure. It was designed for open office space..as much as they could squeeze. Therefore, fewer inner columns and the truss design as used connected to the outer frame with the controversial viso-elasitc dampeners and you have something much different than the solid concrete building as you are showing. They are also not 100 stories high.
The scientific method has concluded otherwise. If you can debunk the 10 pieces of evidence used to support the prediction that the buildings collapse woulde exhibit characteristics of a controlled demolition, maybe you'll at the very least get your foot in the door. But babbling on about how the buildings aren't constructed the exact same way is getting you nowhere.
WTC 7 was not high, but was a fefurbed building which again could have been poor engineering, design or construction but since the guy who owned it was set to collect there would be no investigation. There is as conspiracy but still, no explosives.....
Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
Your photoshopping question just shows your ignorance... go inform yourself.
Originally posted by TupacShakur
The scientific method has concluded otherwise. If you can debunk the 10 pieces of evidence used to support the prediction that the buildings collapse woulde exhibit characteristics of a controlled demolition, maybe you'll at the very least get your foot in the door. But babbling on about how the buildings aren't constructed the exact same way is getting you nowhere.
Originally posted by esdad71
None of the towers you named were designed in the same fashion. None.The WTC did not have the think inner core of concrete nor solid concrete in other parts of the structure.